Hey guys, first post here. Enjoy the site, lots of good info to read up on and I have a question about the wolff magazine spring on my 930 spx that I just installed.
In my search before this post I noticed 28" seems to be the number to trim the spring to so thats what I did. I loaded up a full mag of Winchester 2 3/4 hollow point slugs and it wouldn't load the first round. So I pulled out the shell stop and polished it up, helped slightly but still wasn't anywhere reliable loading. I kept trimming the spring down to 24 1/2" long, it seemed to be better but only 1 out of 5 hand cycles it would load the first round. So I pulled out another box of slugs I had that are Federal 2 3/4 slugs and they are a little over 1/16 of an inch shorter than the Winchesters I was trimming the spring to and over 7 rds that close to 1/2 of spring less thats its compressing compared to the Winchesters. It will hand cycle the Federals just fine as well as some Remington 00 that I have also.
My question is should I keep trimming till I can get the winchesters to hand cycle reliably or just not use that ammo? I would like for this gun to run anything but I dont want to keep trimming the spring too much as I'm already shorter than what the other guys seem to run here. Thanks for any insight.
In my search before this post I noticed 28" seems to be the number to trim the spring to so thats what I did. I loaded up a full mag of Winchester 2 3/4 hollow point slugs and it wouldn't load the first round. So I pulled out the shell stop and polished it up, helped slightly but still wasn't anywhere reliable loading. I kept trimming the spring down to 24 1/2" long, it seemed to be better but only 1 out of 5 hand cycles it would load the first round. So I pulled out another box of slugs I had that are Federal 2 3/4 slugs and they are a little over 1/16 of an inch shorter than the Winchesters I was trimming the spring to and over 7 rds that close to 1/2 of spring less thats its compressing compared to the Winchesters. It will hand cycle the Federals just fine as well as some Remington 00 that I have also.
My question is should I keep trimming till I can get the winchesters to hand cycle reliably or just not use that ammo? I would like for this gun to run anything but I dont want to keep trimming the spring too much as I'm already shorter than what the other guys seem to run here. Thanks for any insight.